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I BEAT THE ODDS: FROM HOMELESSNESS, TO THE BLIND SIDE, AND BEYOND
The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. ...
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EVERY LITTLE STEP: MY STORY
A New York Times Bestseller In Every Little Step, Bobby Brown tells the full story of his life and sets the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston. Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the...
$26.99
THE COOK UP: A CRACK ROCK MEMOIR
The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice...
$10.66
I'M STILL STANDING: FROM CAPTIVE U.S. SOLDIER TO FREE CITIZEN -- MY JOURNEY HOME
SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by chain of command that may have led to her twenty-two-day imprisonment, describes the pain of post-traumatic stress disorder, and shares...
$19.99
NINE YEARS UNDER: COMING OF AGE IN AN INNER-CITY FUNERAL HOME
Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved...
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LIVING AND DYING IN BRICK CITY
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark...
$28.22
NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS: A BLACK WOMAN'S LIFE IN JOURNALISM
As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news. Now she is sharing the story of her extraordinary...
$15.95
LIFE IS SO GOOD
What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father—a belief that "life is so good"—as...
$23.00
THE PACT: THREE YOUNG MEN MAKE A PROMISE AND FULFILL A DREAM
Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each...
$17.00
MIRROR TO AMERICA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915,...
$29.00
WITNESS TO GRACE: A TESTIMONY OF FAVOR (SPECIAL EVENT PRICING)
Witness to Grace: A Testimony of Favor is a poignant true-life story that chronicles the remarkable journey of W. Franklyn Richardson. Grace, as divine unmerited favor given freely by a loving God, is shown time and time again throughout each season of...
$27.00
YES, CHEF
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy...
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UNBOWED: A MEMOIR
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment...
$17.00
THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in selfquestioning. In other words, I...
$17.09
F*CK YOUR DIET: AND OTHER THINGS MY THIGHS TELL ME
*A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist*Named Best Comedy Book by the African American Literary Awards ShowFans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society...
$27.00
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BROTHER, I'M DYING
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated...
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THE NEW NEGRO: THE LIFE OF ALAIN LOCKE
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative...
$27.95
DARE NOT LINGER: THE PRESIDENTIAL YEARS
“I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds...
$28.00
CUZ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL A. (COMING SOON)
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy. In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin...
$24.95
I CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: LIFE LESSONS (HC)
New York Times bestselling author, superstar comedian, and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have a “hilarious...
$33.90